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Adobe Marketo Engage Business Practitioner Expert Certification Path

This page provides information on how to attain this certification. It includes a description of the exam, study materials, step-by-step instructions on the certification process, and how to renew your certification.

Exam description

Learn who should take this exam, what experience is recommended, and what subjects are covered on the exam.

Exam details


  • Level: Expert (1-3 years’ experience)
  • Passing Score: 32/50
  • Time: 100 mins
  • Delivery: Online proctored (requires camera access)
  • Available languages: English, Japanese
  • Cost: $225 (global) / $150 (India)
  • Exam ID: AD0-E559 (English), AD0-E559-J (Japanese)

Intended audience


  • Marketing operations manager/specialist/expert/analyst
  • Digital marketing manager/specialist/expert/analyst
  • Campaign manager/specialist/expert/analyst
  • Marketo Engage consultants
  • Digital/marketing automation manager/specialist/expert/analyst
  • Marketing systems manager
  • Demand generation manager
  • Email marketing manager
  • Revenue operations manager
  • Growth operations manager
  • Martech architect
  • Marketing technology manager
  • Integrated campaign managers
  • Business system analyst

Minimum experience

 

Approximately 18 months of experience with Adobe Marketo Engage features and capabilities needed to create marketing campaigns and utilize customer behavior data

 

You should be a marketer with experience in:

 

  • Building, launching and analyzing campaigns
  • Working with underlying email behavior and technologies including HTML, integrations, databases, and CRM

 

Additionally, you should be familiar with the following tools and technologies:

 

  • Adobe Marketo Engage
  • Excel and CSV file format
  • API concepts
  • CRM basics
  • Social media platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn
  • Microsoft Office
  • Basic HTML

 

 

 

 

Exam objectives and scope

 

This section provides information on the exam content.

 

Section 1: Administration and Maintenance (12%)

 

  • Determine mapping process between Marketo and CRM
  • Identify what happened to an asset using the Audit Trail
  • Recognize differences between users and roles
  • Given a scenario, identify the best fit for using workspace and partitions
  • Identify CRM platforms with native Marketo synchronization
  • Given a scenario, locate where information is referenced

 

Section 2: Marketing Activities/Campaign Management (46%)

 

  • Demonstrate an understanding of Smart Campaigns, logic, constraints and flow steps
  • Given a scenario, define the next step
  • Identify the root cause of a problem
  • Interpret the relationship between programs, channels, tags and period cost
  • Demonstrate/apply the correct configuration to Engagement Programs
  • Give examples of usage for different types of tokens
  • Summarize the utility of Webhooks in Marketo and how they are used
  • Identify and apply the appropriate use of the PMCF
  • Explain the benefits of Global Assets and how to use them
  • Demonstrate the capabilities of forms
  • Perform and analyze an A/B test strategy
  • Identify where a program or asset has been referenced with ‘Used By’
  • Troubleshoot communication limits
  • Use Webinar provider information in an event program

 

Section 3: Lead Management (12%)

 

  • Outline the key decision points in defining the lifecycle model
  • Apply best practices around lead scoring
  • Implement the appropriate interesting moments
  • Interpret the lead activity log
  • Given a scenario, identify the creation source

 

Section 4: Data Management (10%)

 

  • Demonstrate how to set up a data management program
  • Analyze an instance’s data quality
  • Identify a few key pieces of Marketo’s data retention policy as it relates to smart lists
  • Summarize how segmentation works

 

Section 5: Reporting (4%)

 

  • Given an outcome of a campaign, determine how to set up a program to provide the best reporting
  • Given a scenario, be able to investigate and assign the appropriate acquisition program

 

Section 6: Best Practices (16%)

 

  • Demonstrate the relevance of lead scoring in marketing and sales collaboration
  • Illustrate the benefits of the folder structure and naming conventions
  • Apply best practices around A/B testing
  • Explain the process to perform a quality check on any Marketo program
  • Explain the process to perform a quality check on an email

 

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